ET in the Valley: Replit Founder and CEO Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad isn’t just building coding tools—he’s building a future where anyone with an idea can become a developer. In his recent sit-down for 'ET in the Valley,' Masad dropped the mic on how AI is turning software creation into a playground for product managers, designers, and even lawyers. Forget waiting for a dev team; now you can spin up an app faster than you can Google a syntax error. The real kicker? The bottleneck isn’t coding anymore—it’s imagination.
Replit’s meteoric rise, now boasting 34 million users and a $3B valuation, is no accident. Masad’s vision of democratizing software development is backed by a decade of engineering chops from Facebook and Codecademy. With AI-powered agents that can build full-stack apps from text prompts, Replit is reshaping how companies operate and how careers evolve. The takeaway: generative thinking is the new superpower, and debugging AI-generated code is the new debugging. The future of work is here, and it’s browser-based.
